Deb_Allen_18
Jun 09, 2005Historic F5 Account
finding ACTIVE unit
Hi guys -
My customer has an iControl app which, in 4.x, hit the floating self-IP to manage node status on the Active unit only (for maintenance).
We have upgraded to v9 and ported the iControl app, but there is no longer a floating IP for the admin interface and apparently the floating self-IPs cannot be used for admin anymore (I have opened a Support case on that to confirm).
We're thinking that we'll work around that change by adding a test for failover status after connecting to the first unit, and if it's Standby, drop and connect to the Active peer instead.
I'm not at all familiar with the v9 API, but I'm sure there must be a pretty simple way to test failover status. Can somebody provide a hint on the call(s) we'd need to use?
Or is there a better approach?
thx
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